Here's a question for any film historians and/or drinkers out there... How did the movie cliche that drunks always "hiccup" get started? I've been drunk, I've been with drunks, I've watched drunks while I wasn't drunk... I've NEVER seen a drunk do a hiccup ever! Was alcohol somehow different in its effects back then? Is the hiccup a polite symbol for something more wretched, like vomiting. I can't figure it out.